“All I knew is that I never wanted to be average.”

Winners don’t just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

The key to success is failure.

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Excellence isn’t a one-week or one-year ideal. It’s a constant.

The best come from the worst.

I’m all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don’t, I can live with myself.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Earn your leadership every day.

All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.